[OSM-talk] Vegetation page

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 10:03:48 GMT 2009


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Martin Fossdal Guttesen <
mguttesen at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  ok i know this is just provoking a little bit, but look at this
> description
>
>  landuse <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:landuse>=village_green<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dvillage_green> An
> open area of grass in the centre of an English village.
>
>  as an programmer my first bolean thoughts where
> so this tag can only be used if it is an english village, so if it is in an
> english town or Danish village you cant use is , and also just if it is in
> the center
>

Ok, a couple of points need to be made here:

1) It's just a disambiguation page. It even says that the definitions aren't
official.
2) Your comment indicates that there is value in collecting together these
definitions together in little knowledge bases to provoke discussion.
3) Yes, I think it's a dumb tag too. One of the legacies of its very English
history. It would be much better off as a landuse=* tag describing it as
publicly owned grass, with an amenity=* tag or something identifying it as
the village green. But what can you do.

Steve
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